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Smells Like GAS

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6.3K views 10 replies 5 participants last post by  Flybynightcru  
After my last fill-up, every time I drive my 2020 TH turbo, it smells like gasoline from the engine compartment. There are no signs of any leaks, but opening the hood and it smells like gas. Any ideas what I should check?
Gas smell coming from under the hood is almost certainly some sort of leak, and that is very concerning, and dangerous. If you still have your warranty, I would get it in immediately, and probably take it in on a rollback instead of driving it anymore...😎
 
Hope you got some kind of documentation from them, so if it does catch on fire, you have a case against them. That is the dumbest answer from a dealer I've heard in a long time, but this is the world we live in now...LOL!!!🤔😎
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Gotta love warranty service! Called three Jeep service dealers. One was booked until August 15, the second through August 20, but the third said bring it in tomorrow (Tuesday). So I left it overnight on Monday, called them twice on Tuesday (no update) and they called me at noon on Wednesday and said they couldn't find anything and everything is to spec. No charge, but the car still stinks of gasoline after getting warm. They said maybe its a tankful of "winter gas" which has a higher volatility. Run it through this tank and fill it up someplace else and see if it still stinks. Strangest thing I ever heard!
BTW, I probably wouldn't be parking it in the garage. It's one thing to lose the car, but you sure don't want your house to burn down as well...😳😎
 
The charcoal canister is probably in the engine compartment someplace.
It's not, it's back there with the rest of the EVAP system, between the filler and the tank...😎
 
Took it into the dealer and pointed out where the gas was dripping once pressure is reached driving it. It was at a fuel line connector just past the firewall in the engine compartment and a slow drip so long as there was pressure in the fuel line (no drip once pressure lost). They had the replacement fuel line in stock (miracle!) and had it ready by late afternoon.
Excellent!!! I hope you didn't go back to the same dealer that told you there was nothing wrong, and gave you that lame ass excuse about why you were smelling gas...Lesson for everyone, if you smell gas, it's definitely leaking. Glad you found it before something bad happened...😎